SAMAIN (Albert). Hyalis. The small blue-eyed faun. Paris : A. Blaizot, René Kieffer, 1909. - In-8, 252 x 174 : 67 pp, (2 ff.), 10 plates, illustrated cover. Brown morocco, first plate decorated with a pine cone in cold in a frame of dotted nets, surmounted by a mosaic plate in hollow representing a faun holding a branch, second plate decorated with a cold stamped iron representing three pine cones in a frame composed of a dotted net, spine, brown morocco frame inside, decorated with a double gilt fillet, a gilt stippled fillet, and gilt pine cones at the corners, havana leather lining and endpapers with leaf impressions, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, case (René Kieffer) Very rare deluxe edition, printed in charron blue with Giraldon typefaces cast by the Deberny house. The illustration is composed of numerous woodcuts in the text, printed in brown, and of ten etchings out of text in colors, realized by the painter Charles Alexandre PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959) of which it is one of the first illustrations. The total edition is only one hundred copies containing three states of the etchings and a suite on chine of all the woods. A very nice copy bound by René Kieffer. A few small rubs from use. Transfer of the engravings, as always.